Zeeshan Vazeer

Private Equity Investor and Actuary

GGH, Sub-Saharan Africa

Biography

Zeeshan Vazeer is an Actuary and an investor in the African insurance space. After years of providing strategic advice to North American pension funds and insurance companies, he became involved with the African insurance sector as a private equity investor. Over the past three years, he has led the turnaround of two composite insurers across culturally diverse African regions. He was also involved in driving the industry-wide regulatory change in Rwanda which has led to improvement and sustainability of the sector’s profitability. He has served as a Board Chairman at Prime Life Insurance Ltd., is a Fellow of Society of Actuaries, and holds a Masters degree in international relations and business from Johns Hopkins University and INSEAD.